ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Hazlitt’s credentials as a Romantic are placed within a biographical context, beginning with the observation that the profession of essayist was not the one to which he first aspired. He resorted to journalism only when he failed to become a Unitarian minister, painter, philosopher and lecturer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Leigh Hunt, prolific poet, essayist, and journalist, was a central figure of the Romantic movement in England. He produced a large body of poetry in a variety of forms: narrative poems, satires, poetic dramas, odes, epistles, sonnets, short lyrics, and translations from Greek, Roman, Italian, and French poems.

Detailed explanation-3: -His sentences are brief and abrupt, vigorous and direct. He often writes balanced, antithetical sentences to present the contrasting ideas. He is also praised for the use of epigrams and paradoxes. Thus Hazlitt is really one of the greatest essayists.

Detailed explanation-4: -Later that year, Clarke gathered some of Keats’s writing and brought it with him to Hampstead, with the intention of showing it to Hunt. Hunt read the manuscripts and reacted with great enthusiasm, asking Clarke to bring Keats along on his next visit.